What We Do
Cranberry Isles Research provides vintage inspired HiFi audio electronics designed and manufactured on the Cranberry Isles of Maine — with a year round community of only 140 people, our products are quintessentially local and authentic.
We will be selling limited edition systems of hand tuned discrete transistor and vacuum tube based systems with enclosures and cabinets made by local craft persons. We will also offer optional digital sources and DACs.
We also sell sub-components and modules to the DIY market custom tunable to the customer’s specifications.
Who We Are
Jeff Pease
Founder
Jeff, is a seasoned innovator and innovator / engineer with experience and patents in lasers, fiber optics, photonics and electronics. He started working with laser scanning displays in the mid 90’s and became the technical lead in developing an ultra-high resolution 16 bit per color laser based display. During this time he developed skills in mixed signal sensing and analog circuits. The project demanded audio levels of fidelity at UHD video rates.
He most recently provided circuit and PCB design to companies in a variety of sectors, such as industrial autonomous drones, medical sensing, pro-audio projects and more.
Jeff is an Air Force veteran with a VA disability rating of 100%. Over time the impact of his disabilities worsened and he became unable to participate in a traditional work environment. He overcame these limitations and now employs a work style that allows him to remain productive despite his disabilities.
During this transition he learned of an affordable housing opportunity on the Cranberry Isles of Maine. He has been living on Little Cranberry Island (Islesford) ever since. Living in such a unique environment and amazing community inspired him to redouble his efforts to adapt to his limitations. He is now pursuing his passion for developing high quality audio electronics while adding a bit of economic diversity to his island community. To this end all products will be manufactured on the Cranberry Isles with the aim to provide more opportunities to the year-round population, especially during the off-season.
Sophia Caldwell
Sophia is a skilled programmer, digital signal processor, and mathematician. She has worked with Jeff on many products as a digital signal processing expert and embedded programmer.
She can program anything that can be programmed, and some things that can’t. She can solve any math problems that are solvable, and many that aren’t.
With game development as a hobby and applied mathematics-based programming as a job, the only time she’s not doing math or writing code is when she is asleep.
Barbara Caldwell-Pease
Barbara is a tech geek and an experienced writer in all forms — She has written everything from short stories, to technical documents, patents, grant applications, and books. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing, and has been working with computer systems of all kinds since before Microsoft even existed.
For Cranberry Isles Research, she works with bookkeeping, inventory, documentation, and more. Anything we need outside of PCB design, she can do.
Where We Are
The Town of the Cranberry Isles consists of five unbridged islands off the coast of Maine: Great Cranberry Island, Little Cranberry Island, Sutton Island, Bear Island and Baker Island. Of these, Great Cranberry Island and Little Cranberry Island (AKA Islesford) have a year round population of around 140 people. The summer population can grow to five times the year round residency.
The primary economic activity of the islands are the lobster fishery and tourism. Being located off of Mount Desert Island, including portions of Acadia National Park, makes them an ideal location for both pursuits.
The community is made up of an amazing collection of resilient and supportive people.
